Paper Info
Title
Morphology Extension Kit: A Modular Robotic Platform for Physically Reconfigurable Wearables.
Abstract
Various forms of wearable robotics challenge the notion of the human body, in that the robots render the acquired capabilities in physical forms. However, majority of such systems are designed for specific purposes, where rapidly changing environments pose a diverse set of problems that are difficult to solve with a single interface. To address this, we propose a modular hardware platform that allows its users or designers to build and customize wearable robots. The process of building an augmentation is simply to connect actuator and sensor blocks and attach them to the body. The current list of designed components includes servomotor modules and sensor modules, that can be programmed to incorporate additional electronics for desired sensing capabilities. Our electrical and mechanical connector designs can be extended to utilize any motors within afforded power, size, and weight constraints. We also show how our platform can be used in various applications, in addition to how the proposed design can be extended as well as challenges for future systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3173225.3173239
TEI '18: Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Stockholm Sweden March, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Synergistic Interaction, Hardware Platform, Modular Robotics
Computer science,Wearable computer,Human–computer interaction,Electronics,Self-reconfiguring modular robot,Modular design,Cable gland,Robot,Embedded system,Actuator,Servomotor
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5568-1
2
0.36
References 
Authors
13
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sang-won Leigh17411.59
Timothy Denton240.79
Kush Parekh340.79
William S. Peebles4352.49
Magnus H. Johnson540.79
Patricia Maes679411719.73